It should be noted that there WAS a second speed run that was from Chicago
to Denver with an abbreviated, six car Denver Zephyr pulled by Silver King &
Queen. The run was on October 23, 1936, and did the 1,017 mile run in 12
hours, 12 minutes, 27 seconds for an overall average speed of 83.33 miles
per hour. Top speed was at Brush, Colorado - 116 miles per hour! (See pg
21 BB13 & pg 43 BB26 for photo of the run)
Dave Lotz
-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Vlk [mailto:charlie@k...]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:08 PM
To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [BRHSlist] Zephyr
Note that the record run was with the original Pioneer Zephyr 9900, not the
later 1936 Denver Zephyr 9906/9907 trainsets.
Charlie Vlk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Huber [mailto:sarge9@f...]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:09 AM
> To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Zephyr
>
>
> May 26, 1934 from Denver to the Chicago Worlds FAir. 1015
> miles in 13 hours, 5 minutes.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charles A. Duncan
> To: Burlington Route Historical Society
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 1:48 PM
> Subject: [BRHSlist] Zephyr
>
>
> During the 1930's the Q set a new speed record with I
> believe the Denver
> Zephyr. Can someone supply me with the date and the name of
> the train
> and engineer of that record. I believe the engineer was killed some
> years later in a wreck while running the Zepher.
> Our kindergarten class (ca 1936/37) made a mock-up of the train fo
> parents day and the engineer visitedour show. I believe his name was
> Boyer.
>
> Thanks.
> Chuck Duncan
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